OT: "officially" misnumbered centuries

[Jonathan Lighter]

You've shamed me into it. I'll let you know what they say....

JL

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 1/18/2010 08:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Are you testing my prescriptivist faith?
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> >I'll sleep on it.
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> The Harvard on-line catalog offers a form for supplying Comments, one
> of which is "I know of an error in a HOLLIS record".  As a
> prescriptivist, I have provided many, so many that I once asked the
> human responder whether I had become notorious.  No, she said, and
> they welcomed corrections.  But perhaps she was merely being polite.
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> YLMD.
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> Joel
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> >JL
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> >On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Gonna set 'em to rights?
> > > m a m
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> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
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> > > > Our campus library now subscribes to Gale/Cengage's _17th-18th
> Century
> > > > Burney Collection of Newspapers_
> > > >
> > > > The catalogue erroneously describes the collection as running from
> > > > "1700-1899."
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> > > > JL
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